Contrary to your first impression, Code Vein is more than just another flagrant Dark Souls wannabe. Though it may share common DNA with FromSoftware’s trailblazing hit, it manages to transcend its influences and carve out a niche all of its own, by making clever twists on the action-RPG formula. Not only does it have a […]
As I’ve written several times over the past few weeks, Paramount Pictures’ Pet Sematary (read our review) was a quiet hit. Left out of the majority of box office reports, the new take on Stephen King‘s novel hit $100 million worldwide on a reported $20mm budget. That’s good enough for a sequel, and if the studio were […]
What do you get when you mix DOOM and a roguelike? We’re about to find out withChaosForge’s Jupiter Hell, which hits Steam Early Access this June. A spiritual successor to Doom, the Roguelike, Jupiter Hell is a top-down shooter that combines “a classic, turn-based roguelike” with “a 90’s flavored sci-fi universe.” This includes a metal […]
Leave it to Stephen King to take otherwise benign things like a Plymouth Fury or loveable Saint Bernard and turn them into objects of unrelenting terror. When you think of the word monster, you usually picture something much more frightening and supernatural, but in the ‘80s (and the hands of King) anything could be a […]
A Plague Tale: Innocence releases next week and it’s shaping up to be a rather bleak, bloody, and unsettling look (unsurprisingly) at the Black Plague’s decimation of humanity through the eyes of two French children. Fusing grim historical fact with the intriguing mystery of its fiction, it could be the surprise hit of the year. […]
Looking a bit like The Hills Have Eyes meets H.P. Lovecraft, Toronto-based Raven Banner has boarded worldwide sales rights on the cannibal creature feature The Barge People, reports ScreenDaily. It will be repped at the forthcoming Cannes market. The Charlie Steeds-directed film centers on a group of friends who find themselves preyed upon by flesh-eating fish […]
Paradox have revealed the next vampire clan, The Tremere, for their upcoming RPG set in the World of Darkness realm in Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2. They join the Brujah and Thinblood Clans for hold of the Seattle streets. The Tremere have learned to control a vampire’s blood (called Vitae), and combined it with […]
Butcher Block is a weekly series celebrating horror’s most extreme films and the minds behind them. Dedicated to graphic gore and splatter, each week will explore the dark, the disturbed, and the depraved in horror, and the blood and guts involved. For the films that use special effects of gore as an art form, and the fans […]
After the “oopsie” moment that leaked THQ Nordic’s Darksiders Warmastered Edition for the Nintendo Switch, leave it to EB Games Canada to break news that the game’s sequel, Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition, will be headed to the Switch, as well. The product page for the game lists it for an August 20th release. On top […]
Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters is less than a month away and the movie is EVERYWHERE right about now, with toys stocking the shelves and even custom-made Xbox systems being given away by Microsoft. Yes, they literally made a King Ghidorah Xbox. It’s as awesome as it sounds. Oh and there’s a Godzilla […]